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MORE FALSE LOGIC wi WE have perhaps devoted more attention than the matter merits certainly more than the writer deserves to some of the perversions of Mo mormon rinow principle and doctrine which have lately appeared in the local organ of slander but we will notice two more sentences from the same source at the risk of nauseating some of our readers who attach no importance to its utterances touching on another question it says it does not help an argument by misstating the position of another except among those who have no other resort that is a proposition the spirit of which every candid person will endorse its language however is rather turgid now read this from the same paper if there is anything more pronounced than another in the mormon creed it is that those who bold the keys stand in gods P place think with his thoughts and s speak with his words and that men so 90 exalted are entirely free from any of the restraints of merely human laws there could not be a more bom complete misstatement statement of the position of the mormons cormons Mor mons on these points if f there is anything more pronounced than another in inthe the mormon creed it is that prophets presidents bishops or other church dignitaries nit aries are only men subject to like passions as others and aanen amenable to the same laws human and divine with the exception only that they are under greater obligations than the world to live in accordance with both and in addition to the penalties attending the infraction mation of the laws of the land they are liable to discipline from the church and to excommunication if their offenses deserve such punishment there is no person in the church who is exempt from trial for transgression As to gods thoughts and words there is no one in the church who pretends to think or utter them except in this way As holy men of old as they were moved upon by the holy ghost and their words so inspired became a guide to the people so with those ordained to a similar calling today and in this church there is but one man appointed and ordained to receive for the church such commandments as god may reveal for the government of the church there is no men living occupying the position of religious ministers who are less pretentious than the au ties among the mormons cormons Mor mons or who place themselves more on a level with their brethren the almighty is able and willing to manifest his truth today as in the days of moses elijah isaiah or peter and that which he thus manifests is of at least equal importance to people now living with that revealed to others thousands of years ago those who ho choose to do so can reject either or both the mormons cormons Mor mons believe in present as well as past revelation but none of the them m view any man as deity neither do they believe any church official to be free from the restraints stra ints of merely human laws disbelievers may despise repudiate and ridicule both the belief in divine revelation and those who entertain it but they have no right to lie about it nor to misrepresent it and it does not help an argument to misstate mis state the position of another 11 but indulgence in this course shows that the person pursuing it has no other resort nothing further need be said on the subject